Regulators, now were being required to take into consideration the needs of the businesses being regulated before the needs of the people being protected

Before the Civil war every decade there was political realignment and politicians changed their affiliation based on the same honorable motives as we have today.

The two most critical requirements for a succesful President is that the president be qualified for the job. And that the president can maintain popular support.

The truth is,  we do not have any party system at all. The US Constitution does not say anything at all about parties, not even in the preamble.all sides of issues.

The history of neo-liberal economics is a slide that over it's nearly 40 year lifespan has expanded the wealth of large corporations, very rich individuals, and created ever wider income inequality

she ain't dancin' with the guy that brung her.

Destroy the Far Right with the light of ideas that bring positive changes to our individual lives, opportunity to our economic system, justice to our justice systems, and peace  to our international positions.

My grandfather was involved with Boston city politics, becoming a campaign manager for a long time City Councillor. That meant he was a Democrat.

As the cognitive dissonance distance between what is broken and what the pundit class bases their predictions increases, the less reliable the predictions are, and the less the public believes them.

President Trump demonstrates an ineptness that astounds even fans of the 1962 New York Mets

When I mention these issues, people tell me to ‘get over it’

I really doubt that any nation can have such a convoluted, impractical, inconvenient, illogical, costly, undemocratic process of a electing the only nation wide elected office holder.

The meager improvements in the real unemployment figure will start to diminish and by the end of the two years turn negative

I am willing to bet the 2016 election can bring on that change; unless Hillary is the Democratic candidate.

Democratic leadership stood there, hoping that each candidate would solve their own campaign.

After the Great Depression and World War 2 our economy pivoted to an egalitarian model until the early 70's.

Money as speech is an artificial construct of the Supreme Court and the Court has taken that construct beyond any reasonable limit.